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tched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

fication; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

Injury; mischief. We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne.

Not identical; different; individual. To offend, and judge, are distinct offices. Shak.

To compel by pain or suffering. Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty. A. Hamilton.

That distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

Congressional district. See under Congressional. -- District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. -- District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. -- District judge, one who presides over a dis…

A chief officer of state. [India]

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

rting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice. [Colloq.] Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appe…

trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

The office or dignity of a doge.

A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.

A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n.,

rance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. Martin's office is now the second door in the street. Arbuthnot. Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc. -- In doors, or Within doors, within the house. -- Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished is…

An officer of the French customs. [Anglicized form douaneer.]

A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice. These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles. Addison.

A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. Dryden.